Sydney Fuller

Natural

Whoa

While out driving on a frozen lake today, all I heard from the backseat was “Whoa, Da-Da. Whoa!”.

Help

I spent most of the weekend wiring the basement. After being down there for hours by myself, it was nice to get some visitors. Until those visitors decided that they wanted to help.

As a normal handyman, Sydney shows her crack off.

To keep Sydney out of the way, we locked her in the dungeon. Maybe I should let her back out today. Nah.

Playdoh Creatures

Today, Mom broke out a new toy for us to work on together. It was the coolest thing I have ever seen. You get cans of this squishy stuff that you can rip, tear, pound, and make all sorts of shapes. Even cooler yet, this stuff came with all sort of animals body parts. So, you can take a blob of this stuff and insert the body parts and wa-la you have an animal. Check out just a few of my creations. Mommy couldn’t stop laughing at my masterpieces. Not sure what was so funny?

My Two’s

Sydney has become obsessed with learning her numbers. We have started counting with her and she does fairly well. Though the sequence usually goes…4,5,2,9…close enough. So, we bought her a set of those squishy bathtub numbers that stick to the tub to help her learn. They were very rapidly eaten into many pieces so I moved on to the hard magnet numbers. And the number obsession has now gone crazy. She totes them around in her Vera Bradley purse, as all girls should do of course. We must take this purse everywhere we go or there are huge tantrums. She starts screaming, “My Two’s”, which is what she calls her numbers. All day we take the numbers out of the purse, say what it is, line them up, and then put them back into the purse. So, I think she is getting the Accounting gene from her Mom and the anal retentive gene from Dad. Everything must be in its place.

Happy Valentine’s Day

Since that chump CJ probably hasn’t saved up enough allowance yet to buy Sydney a bouquet of flower for Valentine’s Day, we got Sydney her very own Elmo balloon. Every time we go to the grocery she sees the balloon and goes over and plays with it in the floral department.

Now all day long, she has been dragging the balloon around the house with her!

The Ramp

Sydney got a new chair that she gets to use to sit at the big table — now and then. We still use the high chair most of the time because we don’t want to spend our whole lives cleaning. The chair doubles as a ramp so that Sydney can walk around on the table.

Food Fun

Spreading Cheer

Where Did She Go

No webcam? Yep. Just for a couple days. There is work going on in Sydney’s room. Hope to unveil by the end of the week.

Limpin’ With The Bizkit

Well, since kid #2 is another girl, it is time to start turning Sydney into my little boy. Well wait…who said only boys could be rock or rap stars? Time to start learning. This morning we had a jam session to the sounds of Limp Bizkit. She is a natural!

You have been served, beyatch!

Wardrobe courtesy of Dad.

In the words of Limp Bizkit:

All attention in the world today
All the little girls fillin up the world today
When good comes to bad the bad comes to good
But I’m gonna live a life like I should!

Life Is A Beach

For some unknown reason, today was Beach Day at gymnastics class. Perfect. A bunch of kids in skimpy clothes in the middle of winter. Wait. I am starting to think like a parent. Crap!

Time for the bars. I had to get Sydney interested in the bars by acting like you are hanging on and yelling. So now that is her favorite thing to do. Whoa!

Not a ball pit — but a block pit!

Up the ladder. Sydney always cheats when she can. But the last 3 steps require her to really climb.

Made it!

You’re Going The Wrong Way

Discovering Things

Kim took Sydney to the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose today while I was at work. I wanted Kim to post the pictures and talk about the day but both girls are dead asleep right now. Oh well.